• timhh@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    You can’t read one byte

    lol what. You can absolutely read one byte: https://godbolt.org/z/TeTch8Yhd

    On ARM it’s ldrb (load register byte), and on RISC-V it’s lb (load byte).

    Every decent compiler will turn booleans into words.

    No compiler I know of does this. I think you might be getting confused because they’re loaded into registers which are machine-word sized. But in memory a bool is always one byte.